"A comedian? A thorn on the side of the bigotry that infested the American bourgeoisie of the Sixties? A dark sarcastic fiend? However you want to file Leonard Alfred Schneider, he will always be dodging the feeling that you can classify him. By the time he had died of a heroin overdose in 1966, Lenny Bruce's mother agreed with Douglas Records to the release of a few of his tapes that he had intended to use as a proof of his innocence in his numerous obscenity trials."